December 10, 20169 yr can I use the symlink command https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/creating-soft-link-or-symbolic-link/ to let a network share access and pretend to serve a folder on an "external" drive that is not part of the array, or will that mess up the parity operations or permissions making it cause serious errors or be unaccessable in the share?
December 10, 20169 yr Since you'd need to use the Unassigned Devices plugin to mount your "external drive" why not let it export it as a network share too? You can certainly symlink across file systems. It won't have any effect on parity. ln -s /mnt/disks/external_disk/shared_folder /mnt/user/my_share/symlink_name would create an absolute symlink. ln -s ../../disks/external_disk/shared_folder /mnt/user/my_share/symlink_name would create a relative symlink.
December 10, 20169 yr Author Since you'd need to use the Unassigned Devices plugin to mount your "external drive" why not let it export it as a network share too? You can certainly symlink across file systems. It won't have any effect on parity. ln -s /mnt/disks/external_disk/shared_folder /mnt/user/my_share/symlink_name would create an absolute symlink. ln -s ../../disks/external_disk/shared_folder /mnt/user/my_share/symlink_name would create a relative symlink. thanks, just wanted to be sure, i'm already mounting with the Unassigned Devices plugin, the share drive feature works so thanks for the tip
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